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Calaveron posted:I had forgotten how obnoxious the chapter titles were in adwd I thought it was an interesting storytelling device, but he should've been using it from the beginning.
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So July 2020 is GRRM's new deadline to blow for Winds of Winter. I thought he said in a blog post that he'd have a manuscript ready for some upcoming convention but oh well
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ruddiger posted:So July 2020 is GRRM's new deadline to blow for Winds of Winter. I thought he said in a blog post that he'd have a manuscript ready for some upcoming convention but oh well It's nice to have something to look forward to.
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ruddiger posted:So July 2020 is GRRM's new deadline to blow for Winds of Winter. I thought he said in a blog post that he'd have a manuscript ready for some upcoming convention but oh well that convention is in august 2020, so it's the same statement more or less
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This moving deadline is just to delay his own murder by his publisher I assume? That if he went "RIP who knows?" they would just sue him.
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So its gonna take him, optimistically, 9 years to finish a book where he moved a bunch of chapters from the book he *did* release into the beginning of it. Just finish the book GRRM.
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:TIL that George visited the Paris catacombs in 2015. He wanted to give an interview there and share some of his historical knowledge with fans and journalists. Most of the catacombs are closed to the public and it's illegal to wander there so a reputed guide led the group down one of the illegal passageways. Only problem is that GRRM could not use the planned entrance because he was too fat to fit through. They ended up negotiating with the police to open a staircase that's normally barred from public access to let him in. He had to carry a red cushion with him all the way through. Should have left him down there with some paper and candles.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Should have left him down there with some paper and candles. "Do you expect me to write, T.B. Thread?" "No, Mr. GRRM, I expect you to diet!"
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banned from Starbucks posted:Should have left him down there with some paper and candles.
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Kylaer posted:"Do you expect me to write, T.B. Thread?"
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Kylaer posted:"Do you expect me to write, T.B. Thread?" 
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A masterpiece.
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mossyfisk posted:A masterpiece. The American Tolkien. Though actually, I'm not a huge LotR fan.
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Mike N Eich posted:So its gonna take him, optimistically, 9 years to finish a book where he moved a bunch of chapters from the book he *did* release into the beginning of it. Remember the 2016 new year's post where he apologised because he really thought he could have had the book ready by late 2015? ...These books are never coming out, are they? 
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Vichan posted:Remember the 2016 new year's post where he apologised because he really thought he could have had the book ready by late 2015? Have faith: "... work on WINDS OF WINTER continues, and remains my top priority," sayeth the GURM. Any day now.
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Woodpile posted:Have faith: "... work on WINDS OF WINTER continues, and remains my top priority," sayeth the GURM. In all seriousness, I expect to see Winds of Winter relatively soon but unless GRRM gets over whatever hump he's stuck on we'll never see the last book. Back in 2008 I found all those 'GRRM will die' comments to be extremely mean-spirited and I always wanted to stay optimistic but 11 years later and he's only released one more book. Meanwhile his old assistant managed to write an acclaimed science fiction series starting in 2011 of which the 9th and final novel is supposed to come out in 2020.
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Vichan posted:In all seriousness, I expect to see Winds of Winter relatively soon but unless GRRM gets over whatever hump he's stuck on we'll never see the last book. GRRM already said the next deadline he's going to blow is July 2020. I'm thinking 2025 is when GRRM finally suffers that massive stroke/heart attack/diabetic shock/misc lethal ailment and his estate reveals the dead man's switch which incinerated all of his notes.
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Sir Terry Pratchett died at 66 and Brian Jacques at 71, GRRM is already 70 and if he lives to see 2025 that will be a cosmic tragedy of justice.
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Picked up the world of ice and fire for like $12 at a used book store. If it sucks at least I didnt give a fat lazy gently caress any money.
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Kylaer posted:Sir Terry Pratchett died at 66 and Brian Jacques at 71, GRRM is already 70 and if he lives to see 2025 that will be a cosmic tragedy of justice. Rich people have access to the best health care so it wouldn't surprise me to see GRMM live a while yet. Even if he does, I can't see him getting any faster at writing as he ages. Maybe him finishing Winds and untying all the eight billion plot threads he has going will allow him to just steam roll through book 7 in just a few years, but I doubt it.
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GRRMs head in a jar on Brandon Sanderson's desk. Yelling at him to hurry up.
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Vichan posted:Meanwhile his old assistant managed to write an acclaimed science fiction series starting in 2011 of which the 9th and final novel is supposed to come out in 2020. You mean the 9 book series that was only supposed to be a trilogy and then got bloated just like GRRM.
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Cardiac posted:You mean the 9 book series that was only supposed to be a trilogy and then got bloated just like GRRM. Yes, that one. I've enjoyed every one of those I've read so far, though. Currently on book 5!
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Fortunately F&SF writers past 70 have no well-know tendency for their writing to become horrible parodies of their younger selves work. *Checks notes* 
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Kylaer posted:Brian Jacques at 71 tbf have you seen liverpudian cuisine any scottsman or north-englishman who lives past like 55 is a medical marvel
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Gurm is still an absolute fucker.quote:“I felt a tremendous amount of pressure for years now,” he says. “The most pressure I felt was a few years ago when I was desperately trying to stay ahead of the show. There was a point when the show was coming out in April and my editors said if I could finish the book by December they’d rush it out. And the pressure I felt that fall was the greatest pressure I’ve ever felt and then at a certain point it became apparent I’m not going to finish it by then. I don’t only want to finish it, I want to make it as good as I possibly can. Since then there’s been pressure but not like there was at that point. There’s no longer a race. The show is over. I’m writing the book. It will be done when it’s done.” https://ew.com/tv/2019/07/15/george-rr-martin-game-thrones-fan-reactions/ It’s a good thing I stopped caring about new books years ago. There’s much better reading to do elsewhere (and releases regularly).
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Did anyone post this yet? https://ew.com/tv/2019/07/15/george-rr-martin-game-thrones-fan-reactions/ the american tolkein posted:Martin added that watching the recent GoT final season was a bit of a strange experience given the different version he’s still writing. “The whole last three years have been strange since the show got ahead of the books,” he says. “Yes, I told [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] a number of things years ago. And some of them they did do. But at the same time, it’s different. I have very fixed ideas in my head as I’m writing The Winds of Winter and beyond that in terms of where things are going. It’s like two alternate realities existing side by side. I have to double down and do my version of it which is what I’ve been doing.” lol uhhuh fat man
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GRRM posted:"There’s no longer a race." lol it never was a race. If we're using that analogy he fell over right after the starting line and knocked himself unconscious.
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"i have very fixed ideas" says large man who has not written any of these ideas down into what one could call a book
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He meant “fixed” as in “fixed” that shitass last season.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:Did anyone post this yet? lmfao There was a period of tremendous pressure to finish and release a book and I tried real hard and absolutely did not release a book, but uh trust me it's totally coming now that I don't feel any of that pressure
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Can someone just pay some make-a-wish kid to blow their wish on meeting this fat gently caress and getting the real ending out of him?
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banned from Starbucks posted:Can someone just pay some make-a-wish kid to blow their wish on meeting this fat gently caress and getting the real ending out of him? The show ending is the Canon ending
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